But this was the best—except for the human element

[sovay]

I am skeptical of remakes. So many of them seem unnecessary at best, offensively pointless at worst. Every now and then I think of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) and I still don't understand.

. . . If you tell me that Peter Capaldi is going to play Professor Marcus in a stage version of The Ladykillers (1955), I want tickets.

(The rest of these are kind of stupid, but I approve of John Oliver: "You're not a man unless you own at least three monocles.")

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I want tickets.

Truly, madly, deeply.

Nine

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I notice that I do not have to send you "Rome."

[hylomorphist.livejournal.com]

I am skeptical of remakes. So many of them seem unnecessary at best, offensively pointless at worst.

Amen to that. When Hollywood had the fabulous idea of making a remake of Tarkovskij's "Solaris" I had semi-violent intestinal reactions. Getting to watch George Clooney look like a lost puppy for two hours didn't really make up for the offense.

[larryhammer]

Apropos of an entirely earlier post, I just finished watching Jade Warrior, and loved it. Not the least for the most beautifully choreographed and convincing belligerent courtship scene (though of course all the few fight scenes were beautifully choreographed), but also the werid and wonderful crossover of Kalevala x Chinese mythology.

(My one small nit is that while the characters on the container were archaic, they weren't archaic enough for 2000BCE -- more like 200BCE I think?)

Thank you for recommending it.

---L.